The Observer: Bears could halt Shell Arctic plan
Sunday May 4 2008
Royal Dutch Shell’s ambition to drill billions of barrels of oil from waters close to the Arctic Circle could be stopped by the polar bear.
Within 10 days the US government will rule on whether the polar bear is an endangered species.
If it is, environmentalists have vowed to take legal action to halt any exploration in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea, under which lie 7 billion barrels of oil and 32 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Last week, a federal court forced George Bush to make a decision on the bear’s classification, which should have been made 18 months ago.
In February, Shell paid hundreds of millions of dollars to the US government for licences to extract oil and gas there. Environmentalists say polar bears, declining as ice melts, will be wiped out if oil is drilled. Last year, Arctic ice melted at a faster rate than ever before. Shell said it is complying with all regulations and is taking every step possible to minimise disruption.
Environmentalists say Bush is determined to force through oil licences in the last months of his presidency.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/04/royaldutchshell.oil
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
